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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima Day August 6th/Nagasaki Day August 9th
Hiroshima Peace Dome
The A-Bomb Dome at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. This is what was left standing of the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, the building closest to where the atomic bomb was dropped that partially survived.
Websites
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki RememberedIn 2005, the world commemorated the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This website was created for students, educators, and the general public to provide an easy to use collection of resources to better understand that milestone of human history.
- The Final Months of the War with Japanfrom the CIA
- The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Damage Recordscreated by the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
- Atomic ArchiveThis website was created for students, educators, and the general public to understand the science, history and consequences of the atomic age.
- The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945from the National Archives
- The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki/ Manhattan Project National Historical Parkfrom the National Park Service
- A COMPARISON OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKIfrom "The Children of Atomic Bomb Survivors: A Genetic Study." posted by the National Library of Medicine
- Nine Eyewitness Accounts of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasakifrom the Smithsonian
- Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombfrom the Harry S. Truman Library
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The Events
On August 6, 1945, Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The explosion was estimated at 15 kilotons (or 15,000 tons of TNT). 70,000 people died within minutes or days; 100,000 died soon after (usually from radiation sickness). 200,000 died from long term effects (such as cancer).
On August 9, 1945, Bock's Car dropped "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki. 40,000 people died initially with 60,000 injured. 70,000 died by January and 140,000 within five years.
THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA
THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI
Government Documents
- Atomic Energy.. Congressional Hearing, 1946-02-15 byPublication Date: 1946
Books Available at Fondren
Philosophy after Hiroshima by Call Number: B105 .W3 P485 2010ISBN: 9781443812986Publication Date: 2010-12-12
Hiroshima Diary by Call Number: D767.25 .H6 H3 1995ISBN: 0807845477Publication Date: 1995-08-28The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city.
After Apocalypse: four Japanese plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Call Number: PL782 .E5 A37 1986ISBN: 0231062265Publication Date: 1986-01-01
The crazy iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath by Call Number: PL782 .E8 N313 1985ISBN: 0802151841Publication Date: 1994-09-21
Hiroshima in America: fifty years of denial by Call Number: D767.25 .H6 L42 1995ISBN: 0399140727Publication Date: 1995-07-18
The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb by Call Number: D767.25 .H6 K68 2007ISBN: 9780231130165Publication Date: 2007-04-10
Flash of Light, Wall of Fire: Japanese photographs documenting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Call Number: D767.25.H6 F55 2020ISBN: 9781477321515Publication Date: 2020-08-06
Nagasaki: life after nuclear war by Call Number: D767.25 .N3 S68 2015ISBN: 9780670025626Publication Date: 2015-07-28
Fallout: the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world by Call Number: D767.25 .H6 B58 2020ISBN: 9781982128517Publication Date: 2020-08-04
Tattered Kimonos in Japan by Call Number: D767.25 .H6 R36 2024ISBN: 9780817321772Publication Date: 2023-12-26Examines Japan's war generation--Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict.
The Bomb by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781647005306Publication Date: 2023-07-11From the Big Bang to Hiroshima, The Bomb is the multi-award-winning black-and-white graphic novel revealing the incredible story of the most disastrous weapon ever invented.
Truman and the Bomb by Call Number: E813 .G53 2023ISBN: 9781640120730Publication Date: 2023-08-01Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman's decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, Truman and the Bomb will discomfort both Truman's critics and his supporters, and force historians to reexamine what they think they know about the end of the Pacific War.
Shadows of Nagasaki : Trauma, Religion, and Memory after the Atomic Bombing by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 1531504981Publication Date: 2024A critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hiroshima.In the decades following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, the city's residents processed their trauma and formed narratives of the destruction and reconstruction in ways that reflected their regional history and social makeup. In doing so, they created a multi-layered urban identity as an atomic-bombed city that differed markedly from Hiroshima's image.
